Ren'Py - Abandoned - Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

ok, I haven't finished the game yet but I want to give my full support to the dev, he managed to create a sandbox that is actually enjoyable and not boring, which is so fucking great, I love this game, love the comedy, the story, it's so fun, please continue with the awesome job

I’ve really got a lot of enjoyment out of this one (currently up to and including CH6). Personality a-plenty, plus a particularly well-developed advancement arc that’s reasonably believable (in an easily digestible cartoonish sense).

The comedy is almost (or truly) overkill, while it absolutely must be admired for its tenacious resiliency and really quite impressive catalogue of gaffs and endless library of references. Very entertaining, to put it mildly. The dev has clearly enjoyed the process themselves - and I happen to think that counts for plenty.

If you can’t have fun with this family then you oughta quit your own life. They are bursting at the seams with enthusiastic and good-natured ribbing, alongside vibrant sexuality. Literally leaping off the page a good majority of the time. I’m not all that aligned with MC’s generally feeble/passive approach, though I do understand it architecturally and it DOES allow for those around him to shine and sustain/engage in an ongoing refresh.

The images are somewhat dated (flat to some degree) by today’s standards, yet the models themselves are plenty titillating and ripe for consumption. Angles don’t ever get old and are often times inventive; intuitively appropriate to many or most encounters.

Structurally, it’s one healthy tome to tackle. Impressively curated and easy enough to navigate through. A notably grief-free selection of paths to choose from where I never feel lost or left behind. Not a lot of skipping forward or back from FOMO. It’s all there on the table and painless to pursue.

I might have become slightly annoyed at times, expecting some sort of advancement where there is none. Or not quite in line with the ebb and flow of my personal preference. But any of that is perfectly reasonable to grapple with - and not unlike life itself. On the whole, I found my payoff not too far away and worthy within each chapter.

There were some segments that truly hit the bullseye for me and honestly left a memory to carry. Never overwrought and just damn good a time to immerse myself in (naked hide-and-seek/the shed comes to mind).

-I can’t exactly recall how I landed on this offering by accident but I’m quite surprised I hadn’t known about it sooner. It absolutely deserves to be on EVERY incest short-list. It’s a 20 on the dartboard. Grab a grip of pins and hit it!!

SO MUCH CONTENT! My brain literally had an endorphin overdose, visual stimulation overload during playing this game! Yeah, I decided to finally check it out last night, and WOW!

The renders, and animations are stunning. The females are gorgeous! Story is cool, and gameplay is smooth. This game was very enjoyable to play, I finished the current version in one weekend. Never a boring moment, very exciting and well designed game. The mom is one of the hottest in any VN game, and she's so seductive, and stunning. Thank You Dev!!

This game is will be remembered as one of the greats 5/5

TL;DR: If I had to sum up this game in one word: Repetitive. Avoid if you don't like doing and seeing the same things constantly. Oh and if you don't like seeing ahegao faces left and right, I guess.

I wish I could have more fun with this game, I really do. But god damn it's so repetitive and the writing doesn't make up for that fact. Lemme just make bullet points so I can express my thoughts clearly.

• You do the same shit over and over and over again

I really can't stress this enough. To progress it basically just amounts to clicking on the rooms with character portraits above them. Visit Brenna in her room every day, go to your mom's room to sleep with her everyday, go workout with Catherine every day. I'm fine with slice of life stuff, but you at least have to make it interesting, which leads to my next point.

• A lot of the scenes are just boring or VERY slightly progress things. So slight it seems negligible a lot of times.

A great example of this would be the MC buying Lucia(the cousin), a sybian. For that entire chapter, the only thing to do with that character is her riding the sybian, and eventually having the MC jack off onto her while she does that. Am I supposed to get something out of seeing the text, "BWWWBWWWBWBBWWWWWBBWWWWWBWWWB" 6 times in a short period? Again, leads to my next point:

• Sex scenes just aren't well-written or particularly hot from a writing perspective.

I really don't know what to say here honestly. Most of the sex scenes are just really badly written. Whether they portray cunnilingus as just "eating sounds" or have the character just have a dialogue box of "*Grunt* *Grunt* *Grunt* *Grunt*". It's just... I don't even know how to begin describing that. If you don't know how to write sexy times, just get someone else to do it, please. Not every scene is like this, but it happens often enough and bleeds into the better scenes to be enough of a problem.

• The humor just doesn't hit.

Honestly, I can't even get the joke half the time the game is trying to be funny. Maybe that's just me living under a rock or something, but it seriously makes me consider just skipping everything when half the text is just failing to make me laugh. I can count on one hand the amount of times I exhaled through my nostrils to express laughter. A lot of the humor is really immature so that doesn't help. And no, not in a memey way either.

• Catherine is the worst character I have ever seen in fiction.

She isn't funny, she just seems like she needs to be locked up in a mental institution. In fact, I would argue that would be the moral thing considering how much she likes to hurt people when the situation gives her an excuse to. Christ, for one of the bad endings, she fucking snaps someones neck with her thighs when they're eating her out. The actual canon route isn't much better, considering she knocks the dude's eye out. She repeatedly ignores other characters wishes and privacy, and the game hand-waives it away as if it's not a big deal. Refusing to leave someone's room when they ask you to do so MANY times isn't okay and isn't funny. Resorting to violence any time there's even a modicum of conflict isn't okay and isn't funny. Combine all this with the fact that she is actually the only physically unattractive character in the game, it's pretty obvious why she isn't likable. I would delete her from the game if I could, there isn't a single redeeming thing about her.

• The game is extremely boring if it doesn't make you laugh.

The game relies so much on humor, that it's hard to find a reason to play it otherwise. Getting through this shit is a massive slog unless you start skipping the text. It really doesn't help that you don't have sex with any of the family until chapter 9 with each chapter taking a decent amount of time to get through. I wish there was some sort of sense of romance so that you could actually have a reason to play if you don't like the humor, but all of it is just casual fucking.

• There isn't any depth.

The characters are all boring and tropey, the story is minuscule, there's no world-building, nothing. I could stomach everything else if the characters actually felt like real human beings but most of them don't. Sure they have problems, but those all feel like fluff rather than contributing to their character. Brenna(best girl) is the only character that actually feels somewhat like a real person, though that's honestly not saying much. Having 0 depth to anything just exacerbates the problem of the humor if it doesn't work.

Now that's not to say I hate everything about the game. It can be pretty decent when Catherine stops butting into scenes, the jokes are actually okay, or seeing the girls do their slutty ahegaos. Having incest taken seriously is actually refreshing. But those moments are just too few and far between. It's just too much bored clicking to be worth it.

Yet despite all that, I can't bring myself to give this game a 2 star score. I know I should, but this game kinda grew on me. I still stand by everything I said, but the game's got this sort of charm to it that I can't really pin down. It's honestly the only reason I bothered writing any of this. Maybe it's the character interactions. Maybe it's the MC actually being a decent and considerate human being(that manipulates his family into lusting for him but whatever). I genuinely don't know what it is. But I do think people should at least try this game, even if it's for just a bit.

It's the ahegaos if I'm being honest. Shit carries the game so hard, dude.

The last 2 topics will be the final considerations and decision/rating.

Characters:
I wasn't sure if I really wanted to play this because I didn't exactly liked Brenna's face and expressions in the renders presented.
But I ended up getting used to her and the dev's style, now I really like her and I wish I played the game sooner.

There are 7 characters that I like a lot, 2 that I like a little, and 2 that I don't like.
Though one of the 2 that I don't like is the mom which is just a fetish that I don't like, but I'm sure you'll like her if you're into said fetish.

The plot and background of each character is nice, there's something for everyone in this game.

Renders:
The renders are incredible now, the first chapters could get a remake for a FEW of the renders, but they are mostly GREAT.

Some expressions are a bit weird, but nothing too bad.

Animations:
Damn these are good!
So dynamic, with great movements and angles, they nailed it.

Liquids:
I can't complain, the props used are really nice, usually there is a creampie splash and later a closer look at the liquids.
Maybe they could have a few more renders each time, but it's good enough.

NTR:
The NTR is completely optional and non-canon.
You can turn them off completely.
They are more like bad endings than anything, and after they happen you are sent back to correct your mistake.

With that being said, I like the fetish, and there's a reason why in this game it's better than most games out there:
The way it happens here is; at a few specific points in the story, usually in the end of each chapter, you'll get 2 paths..
> > The good thing is that this isn't a corruption game, so there are more emotions involved, as there's more at stake.
And you can enjoy these alternate/shorter paths while still enjoying the correct path.

What Ifs:
These are some great alternate stories that have a very different feeling then the rest of the game.

-4 out of 6 are for Brenna (older brunette sister) with grandpa.
-1 is for Lucia, .
-1 is for Aliza and Amber with the fat guy Kevin.
-1 is a pregnant harem fetish.

Final Considerations:
This entire game is great, sure there may be things that some people despise, and things that some people love.
But we have to remember that there are different tastes, and with that in mind, this game have something for mostly everyone.

I don't like Futa or Mom fetish, but I'm fine with them being in the game and they should make the rating better, as it is more variety.

Decision/Rating:
It's not perfect, but it also have many strengths, it's a project I wish would never end.
I'd rate it over 9,5/10, and I'd be way too critical to rate it 4.

Everyone should try this at some point, it deserves it.

I really don't understand the high score for this game. What an absolute slog to get through. Super repetitive with very little action or kink or really anything that interesting. The renders are nothing special and with all of the mom+sister games out there, this just doesn't hold a candle.

One of the funniest adult VN games I've played. The dialog is effortlessly hilarious, especially from Catherine. On top of that, each of the main 3 women are total knockouts, and the additional side women are bad, too. Sometimes, the comedy is so good, it makes me forget about the gorgeous women and the hot scenes.

I'm sure there's some negative reactions about the non-canonical NTR game overs. Even then, they're still almost comical, so it's not that bad. But I'm not averse to NTR, so I may not be the best judge. Highly recommended. 10 out of 5.

This game hits many of my favorite tags, but it also hits a lot of my turn-offs. It does not matter. The dialogue alone is better than 95% of all the games I've ever played, normal games included. I can't play more than 20 minutes before I'm chuckling and laughing. The scenes are very graphic and beautifully rendered. The story is also good. It has an entertaining plot but doesn't forget that it's a porn game.

Oh My God, this game deserves 5 stars for just the dialogs. So many funny jokes. So many pop culture references placed in just the right places.

- Nice renders and funny facial expressions add to the immersion.
- Grandpa NTR is sort of funny, gross, repulsive and at the same time maybe kinky?
- Music and sound addition would be nice but not essential. Just keep the jokes coming.

This game caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting a solid mix of humor that cracked me up and good-quality animations. It's a simple game but so much fun that I had to play it twice. This is probably the only game I'd suggest keeping NTR on. Trying to avoid gramps was one of the best aspects. You can't go wrong with this one. Give it a shot.

I honestly do not understand why this game has so many positive reviews. As others have said, the models act and look generic like hell. There is not much to do except for clicking on the room in which a girl is. Sometimes, there is also a dialogue option without much impact. Gameplaywise, that's it. Graphics are below average. Too bad.

Game is pretty good, models and h-scenes are very well-done, best example of this is in What-if 6 (with Hunter and Brenna, be advised it's ntr content).

For the longest time I didn't get why this game felt so grindy. I think I figured it out. Unlike other sandbox games that divided time into 4-5 parts (morning, afternoon, etc), this game divided time by the hour. Picture this: the game has 10-ish locations you can click on, and where a character is changes each hour. There's an in game walkthrough, and it is structured like this:

See Character A at Location X 8 times
See Character B at Location Y 9 times
etc.

and you have 20 or so items like this in the walkthrough for each chapter. Once you finish every item on the list, you move to the next chapter.

If you think about it, it's actually not that different from other sandbox games. In other games, you also go from Location A to Location B then back to A all the time. The difference is that progress is linear and there's a storyline to follow along. Here in this game, all the items in the walkthrough can be done in parallel, making it pretty overwhelming if you want to be time-efficient and do everything at once. My advice: don't try to do everything at once, stick to 1 or 2 items on the walkthrough at a time.

Regarding the ntr, this is not a ntr game, at least the base game is not. The base game does have ntr content, and it works like this: sometimes in this game when you are given a choice, one of the choice will lead to a brief ntr scene, then it's game over, the game reloads, and you are forced to pick the other choice.

Hands down my favorite game on this site.
Models are all drop dead gorgeous and all the characters have clear personalities that are allowed to develop and grow. Same goes for the protagonist, who is very likeable and seeing him grow from a scrawny boy to a real sigma male (sic) is fun!
It takes it really slow tho, which at the time I saw as a bit of a flaw, but tbh after things picked up I'm happy it did. The sex scenes are perfect, if you like ahegao and the power fantasy of the MC just being impossibly good in bed.

I also gotta mention the core premise, that the MC is protecting his family from his lecherous would-be NTR grandfather. The NTR endings are totally optional and clearly telegraphed, so completely skippable and non-canonical. I actually enjoy them, they're really well implemented.

The game also does sandbox right, taking place in a small and easily navigable area (the house) with regular events that either tease, provide character moments or serve some excellent H-scenes.

All in all, its not just one of the hottest games I've played here, its one of the most well written stories, and most deliberately designed game-wise.

Full score more than deserved.

Not gonna lie, while I was kinda curious, I decided to play with NTR off as soon as I saw Hunter. Bruh, he couldn't possibly look any more hideous. Overall I had great time playing, and there wasn't anything that particularly stood off in bad way. Plot is well written and funny, characters are likeable. There was a point, about chapter 6 or 7, when it really felt too slow and Iike I won't every be able to get into mom/sisters pants, but luckily it was only for a moment. Besides that one point, pacing is OK. There was some futa content which I didn't like, but since it was game inside game, it's acceptable. But I do have some concerns about 'aunt Drew'. Seems like important character, but I really don't like futa stuff. I'm hoping any content related to him/her will be fully avoidable. Othar than that, I strongly recommend the game.

Very easy 5 stars, probably one of my favorite games on this site.

Pros:
-Fantastic renders and animations
-great build up with every love interest
-witty prose and banter between characters
-this is my personal bias but my god Ophelia is a perfectly crafted diamond of milfy sexiness. Literally everything about her from her model, her sternness, her matronly kindness, her incestuous guilt, is 11/10. On top of that she lactates as well, just awesome.

Cons:
-One of the major characters, Catherine, is one of the most unappealing characters I've ever seen, and it's unbelievable to me that she was modeled by the same dev that did Ophelia. She's like if ET had a jawline stronger than Schwarzenegger's. On top of that her personality is also a pretty niche taste as well. She is a subversion of the little sister tropes you usually see in other games, having her be more assertive, even violent than any other character. I can see what they were going for, but it just didn't work for me.

-The sex scenes kill all tension with constant banter and goofy pop culture references, and ridiculous "ahegao" faces. This is the most major flaw in my opinion, as the sex scenes could've been among the best of the best if the game could just take itself seriously for once. Even during scenes that immediately follow a big emotional moment between characters, the moment sex starts it's back to goofs n' gafs. I'm not asking for every scene to be some big emotional moment but if the MC is having sex with a character for the first time after hours of build up that's a prime opportunity to amp up the seriousness and love between characters. Especially for the incestuous relationships where it makes the most sense for emotional weight to be there, it's one of the major strengths of the genre and part of the reason why it's so popular.

Great game. Plot is gold. The characters are hot and naturals. The MC is not a stupid character and that is really refreshing. The avoidable NTR is a great choice and the What if? are good ways to expand the universe without affecting the original plot.

Waiting for the next chapter. KUDOS to the maker.

This review is for the base game without the "What Ifs" and with NTR turned OFF. There will be minor spoilers.

If your kink is men going down on women, you will love this game. If you feel rather meh about it, this game is gonna be frustrating. It feels like 80% of the game is MC eating pussy and ass.

Another reviewer wrote " No, it's ping-pong. Good, bad, good, bad, great, terrible, hilarious, cringe-coma." and I agree. The writing had me actually laughing out loud several times, probably more than every other game. It was gripping and emotional at times. On the other hand, there were too many moments where I wasn't sure what a character was trying to say. Or they were more or less saying the same thing for the hundredth time. Or there's dirty talk about shit and vomit during a blowjob.

A few words regarding the NTR, which, I think we can all agree on that, is a polarizing topic. There is no actual NTR in the game with NTR turned off. But there's still an awful lot of unavoidable stuff in the sharing territory, if you feel possessive of your LIs. The goblin-like antagonist gets to interact with the LIs, touch them non-sexually and, most importantly, watch everything they do in the house via camera. MC does get to cockblock and humiliate the antagonist though. One LI has a sexual relationship with a girl from the beginning. Around chapter 9/10, several LIs who are still hung up over incest with the MC suddenly start having sexual interactions with other LIs, without the MC. One stereotypically shy LI more or less forces MC into sucking him in front of two old dudes. Later MC is happy watching her cumming hard on the Sybian he bought, while not doing anything with her (yeah yeah, she's giving him nightly BJs, which feel vastly unfullfilling for the player).

The beginning of the game was bumpy, MC is 19 but looks like a 12 year old (except a more than decent sized dick) and is shorter and smaller than his mother and sisters. The models of the girls are too voluptous for my tastes, but the faces (except the younger sister) are beautiful and I like their asses. Alongside a funny writing style I kept playing despite MC being stuck in a kid's body. Soon enough, MC enters a late growth spurt while simultaneously buffing up and becomes a Greek god among mere men, except with a horse cock. As ridiculous as it is, I actually love those male power fantasies. The problem is, while there are some hints of MC becoming more dominant with his now chiseled body, it never actually follows through.

Some pro and contra points in no particular order:
++ Very nice models overall (breasts are too big)
++ The animations are fantastic, fluid and relatively realistic
++ MC gets buff (and a tiny bit more dominant)
++ Amber might have the best ass I've seen in a game
++ Lots of wetness (cum, squirting, lactation, extreme vaginal wetness) and it's visually well done
+ Ahegao
+ Funny (I don't like attempts at humour during sex scenes though)
+ slow burn done well at the beginning (too stagnant later)

- a lot of scenes with cum on MC
-- funny/off-topic talk during sex scenes
-- very little romantic scenes/talk, even though there seem to be feelings
- slow burn becomes stagnant after a while
- free roam does nothing for the game, you need to do every event anyway
-- lots of sexual interactions/watching without MC
-- every other scene is MC eating pussy or ass, a handjob or a girl riding a sybian or a strap-on

without a doubt this is the best game of its humor comedy genre and I'm not a fan but it's the first time I liked a game that has this tag I always try to avoid the scenes but this game is different there's no way to explain it now I'll quote What I think. cons
it's not finished
Almost all the women in the game have the same body type - thick/voluptuous. Could use more variety.
Some female areolas are colored in a funny/mischievous way in the first part of the game. This is fixed in later renders.
Some animations suffer from poor penetration or lack of back and forth movement during sex - some scenes look funny and awkward because of this
Most animations are slow and steady. The game needs more variety here and needs some rough sex animations with deep penetration
The game has many sex scenes. The problem is, after a while, they all blend together and look very similar. I can't believe I'm saying this (as I love a lot of sex scenes in games) but the game would probably have been better with half of that, so they don't all look alike. Either that, or the author needs to do something to keep the sex scenes fresh, fresh and exciting! The author abuses the same sexual positions with the same slow and steady animations
Game can benefit from sound effects during sex
Some MC expressions are overused, like "Fuck me" - it made me cringe after a while
Sex comes very easily during the first part of the game almost to the point where the author forces scenes just to satisfy the players.
No jealousy among the many exploits the MC has with all the female characters. None of them care. now talking a little more about the zombie grandpa who chases the mc's love interests it's very interesting this game character deserves more than five stars for having lots of pranks and humor during sex it's a wonder that's what is missing in most games and this one has it all in one game that makes it almost perfect for me.

A guide to be happy in gaming: check the tags first. LI = Love Interest for this review.


I like the graphics. The dev obviously works hard and is detail driven. Release schedule isn't the fastest, but delivers for a low member team. I'm ok with how the above tags and how they're used.. If you are too, you'll likely 5 star this.

So why the 4 star for me? This kinetic novel is... wet. That's minus half a star.
I'm maybe rare in that I don't like facials, WS, fluid play, anything like that.


It's obviously done as part of the humour, but I find it personally gross. It wouldn't be enough to knock off a star, but I have one exception to fluids: creampie. Why? My favourite fetish is impregnation.

The MC goes out of his way to make sure there isn't impregnation. Makes sense story wise. Personal fetish wise, that's minus half a star. Still 4 or 5 stars is pretty good for a game... but... it's worth repeating: READ... THE... TAGS...